Exception Breakpoint 0x80000003 at Location 0x77F9193C

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Rich Pasco

I'm maintaining an old and (until this week) reliable Windows 2000
system. This week, various applications all abort with the message

Application Error
The exception Breakpoint
A breakpoint as been reached.
(0x80000003) occurred in the application at Location 0x77F9193C.
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program
[OK] [Cancel]

The applications which exhibit this error message are published
applications which are believed to be reliable. These include:

msicuu.exe (Microsoft Windows Installer Clean Up) from
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301

httpd.exe (Apache 2.2 web server)
Part of IndigoPerl 8.021 from IndigoStar software
http://www.indigostar.com/indigoperl.htm

hptskmgr.exe (Hewlett-Packard Task Manager)
Came with my HP Deskjet 5650 printer

I've been using last two applications for months with no trouble
until this week. The first one is one I hoped might fix the problem,
but instead it fails to run because of it!

I have no debugging information (source, map, symbol tables, etc)
for any of these. But since widely different applications all
give the identical error message
(including the exact address of the error), I believe the error to be
in some part of my system common to all three.

In the first two cases above, if I hit "cancel" and open the MSVC
debugger, it shows the instruction at address to be an "int 3".
In the case of hptskmgr.exe the debugger hangs while "Loading symbols."

Since this problem began I ran a couple "registry cleaner"
applications. Each found and fixed some minor errors, but my
original problem persists. These are

CCleaner 2.17 from http://www.ccleaner.com/
RegCure 1.5.2 from http://www.regcure.com/

OK, I am at the end of my wits trying to fix this problem. Anybody
have any ideas (short of reformatting my disk and reinstalling Windows
and all my applications)?

- Rich
 

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